What do you do when you hold the
economic future of your old hometown in the palm of your hand, especially when
you still carry physical and emotional scars from the way the town treated you?
And what if the son of your worst enemy is dangled as bait?

Greg returns to the coastal town where
he lived until the night he was brutally attacked by his best friends and carved
open with a broken bottle. He is there to decide whether the town will be left
the quiet backwater it has always been or whether developers will be allowed in
to bring a new economic prosperity. His nemesis’s future is riding on the
outcome, and to get the decision he wants, he’s willing to sacrifice his own
son, Todd.

But Todd has his own
agenda.

This story first appeared in “Surfer
Boys: Gay Erotic Stories”, edited by Neil Plakcy (Cleis Press, 2009)